He shouts that she’s the one showing him up and making a making a mess of his engagement. Ki-joon wants to cut off the rumors by getting engaged already, but his mode of proposal upsets her. Livid, she says she did it for Ji-sun’s sake, because she couldn’t stand Do-hyun coveting her friend’s stocks. The juicy story causes people to question her motives, especially since Do-hyun emerged as the prime successor to the company. He censures her for making a scene at Do-hyun’s blind date, despite her engagement to him. He looks for Chae-yeon, and orders her to apologize to Ji-sun, so as to quell the rumors going around about her. He’s surprised to receive a call from Do-hyun’s blind date, Ji-sun, who asks after his and Chae-yeon’s relationship. He thinks Do-hyun is trying to outmaneuver him for control of the company. Seok merely explains Do-hyun away as one of his many students - a scenario Ki-joon doesn’t buy. Ki-joon’s guess is drugs or alcohol, and he pleads worry about his cousin. He had tried to probe for information on Do-hyun’s condition, having noted his strange behavior. Hm, so she owns him? She warns him not to hold hands with the other side, and to stay with Do-hyun. Instead of answering, she tells him his discretion was a big part of why she employed him and saw to his education. Before leaving, he asks if she actually knows what ails Do-hyun. She orders him to investigate her background anyway. He kneels at her feet to massage it out, and they share a sweet moment.Ĭhief Ahn brings Grandma Seo up to speed on Do-hyun’s trustworthy new doctor. She feigns a leg cramp as an excuse, and he goes along with it. Maybe she’s looking for a way to stay now, because she’s grinning madly at him the whole time, no longer refusing. He holds her back again, and reminds her that they agreed that she can’t turn back, and he can’t send her away. She laughs in his face and even refuses triple (though it clearly pains her) and tries to run. If she takes the secretary-guise, he offers to double it. He tells her to check her account, and the amount deposited makes her eyes pop. She complains about the “slave contract” (apparently the disguise is to be his “secretary”) and he says it’s her fault for not reading it first.

“I’m Cha Do-hyun,” he says, and marches her back in. (Do-hyun: “I didn’t get annoyed!”) His parting advice to Do-hyun is, “Don’t lose her.”ĭo-hyun catches Ri-jin trying to sneak away, but he pulls her back by the collar. He repeats Do-hyun’s earlier words about not letting her get close to him, and notes how Do-hyun contains his own emotions so strongly - but for the first time in eleven years, Chief Ahn saw him get annoyed because someone got past his walls. Outside, the chief asks Do-hyun what’ll happen if she turns it down. It must be the first fun he’s had for years. Chief Ahn cryptically mentions a disguise while Do-hyun is a picture of innocence. She has a little meltdown.Ĭomposed again, she asks what they’ll do about when he’s at the office. Ri-jin asks where she’ll be living - is it somewhere nearby? She hasn’t looked at the contract yet, so they explain that since she needs to keep an eye on Do-hyun 24/7, she has to live with him. Seok, detailed profiles on each alter, and his personal diaries from the last eleven years. They include his patient histories from Dr. Ri-jin and Chief Ahn reel and ask again, “Shin Se-gi?!” Hahaha.ĭo-hyun drops a ton of reading in front of Ri-jin, and enjoys her dismay.

He insists that he’s not annoyed, but when Ri-jin encourages him to express his feelings, he bellows at her. As if he isn’t there, Ri-jin and Chief Ahn discuss him, worried his fit of temper might provoke a switch. They’re not used to seeing gentle Do-hyun mad. They simultaneously exclaim, “Shin Se-gi?!” He forcefully frees himself, which surprises Ri-jin and Chief Ahn. In this case: Friendship! Bromance! Romance! Lipstick!ĭo-hyun struggles in Ri-jin’s grip. And we all know triangles have mystical magical powers. So we can cheer up that Do-hyun - whose inner circle is more like a line with two points - gets to add his third point, making it at least a triangle (and about time, too).

Just in Do-hyun, he draws out the painful mixture of loneliness, fear and isolation which serve to make him a man apart - less a beast and more an alien, the only one of his kind. Although the metaphors aren’t subtle, the emotional delivery and throughline are everything I could wish for, and I’m in awe of Ji Sung and his power to inhabit a character (…inhabited by other characters). What’s great about this show is how increasingly grounded it becomes in its own reality, letting the humor run high and the pathos run deep. 297 FebruJanuKill Me, Heal Me: Episode 8 by Saya

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